归正首邱歸正首邱

归正首邱歸正首邱 in English

guī zhèng shǒu qiū: (idiom) To die and then be buried in one’s native place. It means returning home to be laid to rest.

Character breakdown

归歸 guī to return
正 zhēng first month of the lunar year
首 shǒu head
邱 qiū mound

Stroke order

Le caractère 归 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 归

Le caractère 歸 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 正 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 正

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 首 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 首

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

归

These are the forms of 歸, the traditional character: 归 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 20 forms

正

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 26 forms

首

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 18 forms

邱

Warring States script 戰國.秦
Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

See 归正首邱 in the search results